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[Zelda UO BETA [REMAKE]: Episode 1]

Not bad. It didn't feel like a whole lot happened, but it was a fun flash anyway.

Here's what I liked:
-Background art was very pretty.
-The music was fitting.
-Most audio was alright.
-There were some funny moments.

Here's what I didn't:
-Some of the anatomy looked odd, particularly Saria's running in the forest.
-Diggs voice was a little hard to understand at times (I shouldn't NEED subtitles to understand someone speaking English, but in this case I did), and his lines weren't delivered with much enthusiasm.
-The flashback with Mido was confusing, I honestly couldn't tell what happened or why it would make Mido mad.
-Why was Diggs the only character whose name showed up as question marks when he spoke. Saria had already mentioned him in the previous scene so it wasn't hard to figure out who this character was. And when you did officially introduce him there was nothing significant about that moment. In my opinion you should have simply put his name there from the start if you weren't going to do anything with the reveal.
-Not much happened. It felt like more time was spent on a game of tag than moving the plot forward. As a result there's not really anything that grips me and makes me eager to find out what happens next.

Try to give some sort of plot hook in the future. It's good to establish your hero's goal as quickly as possible. Even if it's only a piece of it you should hint at what direction the series will take. Aside from Link having something come up with Mido I don't really know what's coming down the road. If I were to base my expectations of this series on this episode I'd assume that this will be a slice-of-life series about Link's everyday chores and such which is, to be brutally honest, not something I'm excited to see.

[LoL Demacia vs Noxus]

This was pretty cool! Since I'm a fan of LoL and you did it faithfully, I'll give you the maximum score I'm willing to give to motion-tweened sticks. Good work!

[TOME Episode 05]

There was a lot to this. That means a lot to love, but unfortunately, also a lot to not love quite so much.

What I liked:
-The art was very nice.
-The backgrounds all fit well.
-The characters were each very unique in appearance.
-You brought together many very talented voice actors.
-The music fit wonderfully.
-Most of the sound effects were cool.
-This was the first episode that felt like it truly set up a story arc to cover the next few episodes.
-The animation was pretty smooth.

What I didn't like:
-This episode seemed to embrace anime cliches in a number of ways.
-The main character has a level-headed "I want to keep my friends happy and get along with everyone, but if someone's a bad guy I'll convince them to stop" generic personality fitting of at least half of all anime main characters. Unfortunately, he lacks any unique personality quirk to set him apart from the rest.
-He even has a hidden power mode that he must learn to control, like 90% of anime main characters.
-You're running a tournament plot line where the main character knows he'll be facing a specific, evil opponent who he knows he can't defeat in his current state. Thus, he must train until his power level is over nine-thousand. Another pretty cliched anime plot.
-The argument that broke out seemed pretty contrived. Kirbopher came off as even more of a whiny woman than normal, managing to beat both Nylocke and Rockoon for my least favorite character spot. I won't lie, I was hoping Alpha would take the opportunity to remove Kirbopher from the series.
-However, Kirbopher's arguments were based on preschooler logic, so the other whiny chick is just as at fault for arguing back. Any person over the age of 8 would probably shrug off Kirbopher's rant and not even waste time replying, but she acted every bit as childish as he did. So after this episode I don't like her either.
-You put Alpha's godmode and the opponent who shuts him down with no effort in the same episode, which makes it seem less like this other guy is powerful (which is how it would seem if Alpha had been shutting people down for ages) and more like Alpha and his friends are below average.
-This guy who beat Alpha, based on his dialogue at first, seemed to show up JUST to deal with Alpha, yet after beating Alpha he speaks as if Alpha was to blame for attacking him. So did the guy seek out Alpha so that he could make douchy after-fight comments that don't make sense when put into perspective, or was he making overly dramatic "it's time" comments about something mundane like "to log in and check my mail"?
-The part after the credits was confusing and didn't feel like it helped the plot, in fact it seemed like it killed the suspense of the ending before the credits. Was Rockoon trying to turn everyone against Alpha and make him a Pariah, or was it just a weak way of trying to convince the viewer that Alpha was a force to be reckoned with? If it's the former, Rockoon should have done a lot less smug smiling and a lot more encouraging people to tell their friends and spread the word. I know I wouldn't be convinced of how terrible something is if the one talking who claims to have encountered it is pleasantly smiling while he recounts it. If it's the latter, it kind of falls flat because no one seemed intimidated by Alpha, even Rockoon himself, and even AFTER Rockoon's comments. Plus the episode ended with Alpha being beaten to a pulp, so following it with a "ALPHA IS GODTIER!" moment is really ineffectual.
-It's not clear what this thing that talks to Alpha is or why it has chosen him or why it has the power to talk to him AND take him over forcefully but can't accomplish what it needs to WITHOUT him. I'm sure you plan to reveal this eventually, but you have to remember in the mean time that you're forcing your audience to suspend disbelief and not ask questions. In most "hidden power" cases we at least have some knowledge to sink our teeth into. Maybe we don't know how it chose the main character or came to be, but we know WHAT the power is.

Overall though, best episode yet. Keep it up!

[Hyper Halloween]

This was really awesome!

What I liked:
-The animation was top-notch!
-The art was really good too!
-The animation was smooth enough to be mentioned twice!
-You did a great job building the animation around the audio.
-The battle had an epic feel to it.

What I didn't:
-All of the vocals. Every one of them. It was very clear that they were in the song by the time you got your hands on it and you did your best to work them into the piece, which was commendable, but they were still distracting and broke up the flow of the rest of the flash.
-Not much explanation of what's going on or who this witch is. It's kind of a "random fight" flash.

Overall this was amazing. You're a fantastic artist. Keep doing what you do!

[ZTV News Episode 3]

Not too shabby. Not too shabby at all!

Here's what I liked:
-The art style was very clean and precise.
-The animation was the smoothest I've ever seen from such a tween-heavy cartoon.
-The girl had really solid voice acting, as did Raven. The narrator's voice acting wasn't bad.

Here's what I didn't:
-Although the animation was smooth, the method you used meant really smooth transitions between the same handful of poses.
-Some of the writing was a little cliche (like anything related to tentacle rape), some of it was just gross (the mayonnaise comment was just disgusting, not funny), and some of it was just forced (like the "get on with it" bit with the narrator losing his temper, or the "watching you fap" line).
-The music at the end was waaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyy too loud (you should edit your audio to make sure it's all close to the same volume).
-News (or sports announcing) coworkers passive aggressively going at it is a pretty overdone cliche in general.

Overall this toon had its ups and downs, kinda left me with mixed feelings, but I think it was MOSTLY good so I'll score it as such. Keep up the good work!

[Too Scared to Piss]

Dat 14 year-old penis...

[Coding Test:JIbbers]

Glad you got this out of your system, but a flash where all you do is make Justin Bieber walk back and forth should be in the game section, not the movie section.

[Batman Hates Bronies]

Very smoothly animated, well voiced, and well written. The funniest part though was a brony calling some OTHER cartoon gay. MLP is the definition of gayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

[Spazkid in 4D]

Some random guy looks at porn and jerks it. I'm afraid that's been done. I don't know where he's back from, but he needs to go back there.

nickmsantoro responds:

You obviously don't know who spazkid is, nor what flash is...

[What Do You Think]

Just as good as any other Madness flash ever.